Halliday's Introduction to Functional Grammar

M.A.K. HALLIDAY is Emeritus Professor of Linguistics at the University of Sydney, Australia.CHRISTIAN M.I.M. MATTHIESSEN is Chair Professor of the Department of English in the Faculty of Humanities at Hong Kong Polytechnic University.

'...an invaluable presentation of, and rationale for, the central descriptive apparatus of Halliday's systemic-functional grammar of English...essential reading for all students of English textual structure, teeming with insights.' - Michael Toolan, University of Birmingham, UK'Anyone who claims any interst in practical grammar and its relationship to theoretical grammar should certainly familiarise themselves with it.' - Studies in Second Language Acquisition'It is hard to imagine anyone in the field of applied linguistics or ‘linguistics applied’ that does not recognise the ever increasing insights that this 4th edition of SFG continues to give in seeing language from so many different perspectives. Its value for teachers and reseachers is immeasurable.' - J.A. Foley, Assumption University, Bangkok

• PrefacePART I: THE CLAUSEChapter 1: The architecture of languageChapter 2: Towards a functional grammarChapter 3: Clause as messageChapter 4: Clause as exchangeChapter 5: Clause as representationPART II: ABOVE, BELOW AND BEYOND THE CLAUSEChapter 6: Below the clause: groups and phasesChapter 7: Above the clause: the clause complexChapter 8: Group and phrase complexesChapter 9: Around the clause: cohesion and discourseChapter 10: Beyond the clause: metaphorical modes of expressionReferencesIndex